Assistant Project Manager

Location/s: York, Newcastle or Leeds; UK

Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott Mac Donald's Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients' key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Our North Eastern transportation team is expanding, and we have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and motivated individual to join us. We are a vibrant team based across York, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle with an ambitious goal of doubling our size in 2025 to match our expanding portfolio. Our core team consists of professionally qualified and experienced Project/Programme Managers, Planners, Commercial Managers, and Quantity Surveyors.

We lead and deliver a broad range of exciting transportation projects and programmes through our integrated, full service, Project, Programme, and Commercial Management (PPCM). We deliver a one Mott Mac Donald solution by collaborating closely with our clients in the transportation sector and leveraging Mott Mac Donald's technical excellence in engineering, development, and management services.

We are seeking a driven candidate with the right attitude to integrate both internally and externally, grow our team, represent Mott Mac Donald, and to deliver excellent service to our clients.

We operate in Aviation, Highways, Rail and Maritime. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide‑ranging consultancy as ‘credible' and ‘preferred' for our existing and new clients.

As an Assistant Project Manager you will assist the Project Manager on delivery of projects or work streams on major infrastructure projects. This opportunity will enable you to support the development of this growing and diverse business whilst progressing your own career.

• The successful management of the development, design stages, delivery and handover of (built environment and infrastructure) projects as instructed, ensuring:
• Processes and procedures are applied, and any governance protocols followed
• A project management plan is developed and maintained for each project
• Projects are scoped in accordance with agreed project objectives
• Deliverables are clearly identified and executed
• Key parameters of cost, time and quality are achieved providing a coherent and realistic action plan against deficiencies
• Liaise with the projects H&S&W and CDM Representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project…